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FILM IS LIKE A BATTLEGROUND: SAM FULLER'S WAR MOVIES. Marsha Gordon. Oxford University Press, 2016. 304 pp. ISBN 9780190269753 In English.
Hardcover edition also available; see Worldwide 175279. Publisher's description: Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era amateur films, to explore the director's lifelong interest in making challenging, thought-provoking, and often politically dangerous movies about war. After establishing the roots of Fuller's cinematographic schooling in the trenches during World War II, including careful consideration of his 16mm footage of a Nazi camp at the end of that war, Film is Like a Battleground explores Fuller's first forays into hot war representation in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the American political machine when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. Fuller's cold war films Pickup on South Street (1953) and, though it veers into hot war territory, Hell and High Water (1954) are Fuller's responses to the political pressures he had now personally experienced and resented. Indexing: Video/Film/Performance Plans: 71 Worldwide Number: 175280Paperbound $29.95x (libraries receive a 10% discount on this title)

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